Dr. Cosgarea serves as the head team physician for the Johns Hopkins University Department of Athletics and chief of the Division of Sports Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

He received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the University of Rochester and performed a fellowship in sports medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Cosgarea was an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center and an orthopedic consultant with the Ohio State Athletic Department.

Dr. Cosgarea was a team physician for the Baltimore Orioles from 2000 to 2010. He was named one of the “125 Knee Surgeons and Specialist to Know” by Becker’s Spine Review in 2012. He is a member of various professional organizations, including the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

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Research & Publications

Research Summary

Dr. Cosgarea’s research interests involve knee biomechanics, especially the patellofemoral joint. He has worked in collaboration with biomechanical engineer John Elias, Ph.D., on a series of projects that use computational modeling to study patellofemoral realignment surgical techniques. He is also collaborating with Dr. John Carrino using a new imaging technology, dynamic CT scanning, to better analyze biomechanical parameters.

He has been involved in a series of projects exploring posterior knee anatomy. He maintains a database that tracks surgical treatment in patients with pigmented villonodular synovitis. He has studied shoulder range of motion in baseball pitchers by collecting retrospective data from the Baltimore Orioles and prospective data from the Johns Hopkins baseball teams.